Cosmic Meditation… How To Meditate For Beginners

May
31
2009

yoga culture

The human mind and yoga

The human mind in its process of evolution, it has been illuminated by the light of consciousness to produce systems whose end is to improve the human condition. These are the circumstances that they sometimes determine geographical position, where such systems are manifested more clearly in the world.

This way, Yoga is India's historic position of his birth Moreover, later also detained in the religious culture of this country.

This becomes the final objectives of the researcher who today must for the strength to get through the Indian culture to be able to understand the purpose and use techniques that will form the system of "Liberation" denominated Yoga. And when we say "liberation", he meant to say that the release is also in the street indissolubly liberation from cycle of rebirths Samsara or tied to the distorted vision of effect which prevents the dissolution of the union with the suffering and exploitation Forest of knowledge itself inalienable.

The word Yoga, belong to the spiritual world, and sometimes utopian Indians, although most yoga old, some argue, it does not introduce any type of cultural or religious connotations.

The ancient origin of Yoga is certainly a pre-air as they reflect the archaeological discoveries Harrappa Mohenjodaro and I owned the city valley civilization of the Indo above the development of Vedic India.

Yoga was held conventional rather see the light in the early centuries of our own, it was and are considered the six darsana or points of view, the Hindu philosophical-religious thought, the codification, as everyone knows, is attributed to Patanjali, the compiler of the Yoga Sutra, or Aphorisms of Yoga meetings, as always, when he is in contact with the history of India, a largely weak.

As you have said many times, yoga is a Sanskrit word derived from the verb basis points YUJ the meeting record yoke. Example: for the yoke oxen to the car. His gifts meaning to this system, the role of discipline while you are thinking of harnessing this personality in instinctual human nature, conduct and complete its transition to a much larger goal represented by other meanings, we shall see later, due YUJ the verb. The proponents of this discipline, the first train in the circle psycho-somatic, the yoke of the mind and body for a perfect record in working at depths to a single idea.

They happen if the testing of a first impression of aggregation harmonic corresponds to a nice stage in which the spirit is partly reorganized. To return to the sanscrito YUJ verb, is almost always appropriate, as I told you, other meanings in the most intrinsic "to" I want yoke can represent precise measurements and experiments of consciousness compared to that described above related to the verb to join the Union or if it is reported to the word yoga.

Third proposed interpretative notes, is recognized in the word "merger" as it represents the Yoga for the level of experience more advanced coscience that it generally follows the full realization of the psycho-physical Union. In this stage of the object after meeting record held by the inter dynamics between himself and his surroundings, he realizes that his feelings so strongly. It is worthwhile to break down the last resistance and contrary to aspects of the event, of course also to the men feel in the merger and their legacy of something the town.

He changes to this worldview. The friend of the words, hostile or indifferent, they are replaced to be favorable, unfavorable or neutral, and Therefore, introduced himself more obvious emotional stability. The memories, especially through the practice of meditation, just as they reorganize and stripped by the emotional aspect.

The heavy burden of the past depressing in many cases, is loose and often observed to disappear a sense of guilt. The individual may start that way toward him carrying a fourth stage which will looking for lasting joy and what is more usual one or the transcendent.

Along the street, he could experience the peace supreme to know and to rest in the true essence of his being. With a continuous meditation on truth itself, which is pure consciousness eternal and beyond the complex psycho-somatic and oppressive world, it could achieve freedom.

In the full success of this phase, the subject should back to fit, or he would be reinstated in the community better, he thought I was deprived of resistance, and with a vision clear reality.

To conclude this first part I also say that the science of yoga is asked to teach a method to achieve complete union with himself, which is the spiritual reality present in each of us with this general purpose whose constitution is, according to a hypothesis of ancient literature, reality, consciousness, bliss (Satchidananda).

This union would the only true yoga. The point where he leaves for this experience. A state of consciousness in which the mystics to propose to meet and know God. A road may be shy, by which one product, so to speak, would be back in the bosom of the generated, more probably merge itself in nature even it loses its individual identity.

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